Developing and evaluating a hybrid wind instrument excited by a loudspeaker

Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin (2014). Developing and evaluating a hybrid wind instrument excited by a loudspeaker. In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, pp. 294–303.

Abstract

A hybrid wind instrument generates self-sustained sounds via a real-time interaction between a computed physical model of an embouchure and a real acoustic resonator. This concept remains poorly investigated due to the technical demands on the actuator that supplies the calculated mouthpiece signal. A newly proposed prototype has been realized, using a loudspeaker as actuator. We evaluate the resulting self-sustained sounds by mapping their sound descriptors to the input parameters of the physical model of the embouchure. Results are compared with simulations. The largely coherent functioning confirms the usefulness of the device in both musical and research contexts.

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• Item ORO ID
• 41419
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  The Open University	Not Set	The Open University (OU)

• Keywords
• Hybrid wind instrument; loudspeaker; electronic mouthpiece; timbre music
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Engineering and Innovation
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
  Music Computing Lab
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• Depositing User
• Kurijn Buys